2024 Xingyun Awards Finalists

Best Novel

• Cosmo Wings, Jiang Bo (People’s Literature Publishing House; 8-Light Minutes Culture)
• Gods of the Earth: Return of the Dead, Fenxing Chengzi (Shenzhen Publishing House; Science and Fantasy Growth Foundation)
• The Age of God Making, Yan Xi (Sichuan University Press; Science Fiction World)
• The City in the Well, Liu Yang (People’s Literature Publishing House)

Best Novella

• “The Solar System on Set: The Teahouse at the End of the Universe”, Shuang Chimu (Shanghai Literature Issue 4, 2023)
• “The Salt Bridge”, Liang Ling (Lighting up Mars: Collection of Winning Stories from the 6th Lenghu Awards)
• “Our Martians”, Bao Shu (Visiting the Stars: Chinese Stories of Flying to the Outer Space)
• “The Fleeting Gravity of Words”, Zhou Wen (Visiting the Stars: Chinese Stories of Flying to the Outer Space)

Best Short Story

• “Lake Breezes that Brush Over the Palace of Moon”, Wanxiang Fengnian (Visiting the Stars: Chinese Stories of Flying to the Outer Space)
• “Let the White Deer Roam”, Cheng Jingbo (Science Fiction World 11/23)
• “City of Choice”, Gu Shi (Beijing Literature 07/23)
• “A Window with a View”, Bao Shu (Non-Exist SF 01/24/23)

Best Non-Fiction

• Chinese Science Fiction: An Oral History, Vol.1-Vol.3, Yang Feng, ed. (Chengdu Times Publishing House; 8-Light Minutes Culture)
• “Impressions of Chinese SF Practitioners on Foreign SF Culture: A Brief Analysis of the History of Introducing Foreign SF Culture”, RiverFlow (Zero-Gravity SF #12)
• Gazing at the Stars: My Personal Encounter with Chinese Science Fiction, Yang Xiao (Sichuan People’s Publishing House; Science Fiction World)
• Unlocking the Future: The Urban Imagination in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction, Luo Xiaoming (Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House)

Best Translated Fiction

• Babel, R.F. Kuang, translated by Chen Yang (CITIC)
• SF Soul: Autobiography of Komatsu Sakyo, Komatsu Sakyo, translated by Meng Qingshu (Sichuan Science & Technology; Science Fiction World)
• The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi, translated by Gen Hui (New Star)
• Escape from the Future, Kobayashi Yasumi, translated by Ding Dingchong (Yilin)

Best New Writer

• Wang Cencen
• Lu Hang
• Qi Ran
• Wang Xiaohai

Best Review

• “The Curve of Human Destiny and the Poetics of Humanity: Reading Last and First Men”, Shuang Chimu (Imagining Science: Reading SF Literature Classics)
• “A Specter of the Anthropocene is Haunting: A Review of Mark Bould’s ‘The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture’”, Lyu Guangzhao (Science Writing Review Issue 1, 2023)
• “From the Valleys to the Stars: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Speculative Anthropology”, Jiang Weihe (The Beijing News 09/22/23)
• “‘Journey to the West’: An Atypical Segment of the Science Fiction Community”, Xi Xia (Literature Press Wechat Official Account 04/04/23)

Winners will be announced May 18, 2024, at a ceremony in Chengdu, China.

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